Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

181
White
No.
They sure didn't
McDivitt
And even though t he light wasn't on, it seemed
like we would get an extraneous pulse every once
in awhile at sunrise or sunset .
But I
thought that the Horizon Scan Mode worked very
well. It certainly proved to me that it was an
excellent attitude-hold mode, or pilot-rel ief
mode .
9.6 HF Transmission Reception Check
McDivitt
I think that I 'd like to start out with No. 3
in this case .
We received an update to start
and stop our checks and had no difficulty doing
this .
I think that the transmission and recep­
tion , No. 1 and No . 2 under this major heading, are
covered in our data book and I 'd like to have Fd
summarize them at this time.
White
We ran a one day and one night-long test on it
in which we attempted to have all stations contact
us. The data in the book.
I think the data will
point out that the HF is a rather unsatisfactory
mode of reception. It was difficult for us to
evaluate our transmission that ' l l have to be done
from the data from the stations. But as
far as reception was